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About Lon Strickler

Lon Strickler is a fortean researcher, author and intuitive who writes and mentors on a variety of subjects.

Lon is a resident of Hanover, Pennsylvania. At an early age, Lon realized that he had the ability to sense spiritual energy and found this useful in the field when conducting investigations. Most of his early field work concentrated on spiritual activity at historical locations, in particular the Gettysburg & Antietam battlefields.

In 1981, Lon experienced a "Bigfoot" encounter near Sykesville, MD while fishing on the south branch of the Patapsco River. As a result of the incident, he included cryptids as an important part of his research.

Lon started the 'Phantoms and Monsters' blog in 2005, which has steadily grown in popularity and read daily by thousands of paranormal enthusiasts, investigators and those seeking the truth.

Lon's research has been featured on hundreds of online media sources. Several of these published reports have been presented on various television segments, including The History Channel's 'Ancient Aliens',' Syfy's 'Paranormal Witness'​, 'Faked or Faked: Paranormal Files,' & Destination America's 'Monsters and Mysteries in America.'​ As well, he has been interviewed on several radio broadcasts, including multiple guest appearances on 'Coast to Coast AM.'​ He was also featured on Destination America's 'Monsters and Mysteries in America'​ television show for 'The Sykesville Monster'​ episode.

Lon is the host at Arcane Radio on the Paranormal King Radio Network - Live Friday 9PM ET / 6PM PT - Podcast available at Podbean, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, blubrry & TuneIn. Also available on YouTube.

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I recently received the following account:A few years ago (2015/2016) I woke up for the morning and had a faint memory. It was different then remembering a dream when I wake up, but maybe it was a dream? It was short if it was a dream, I only remember just a bit, which that isn’t like my normal dreams too. My memory is as follows:

I was standing naked against a very slightly curved wall. I could see low yellow lights along the floor of the wall. Almost like the light was coming out

“I want to share a weird experience my husband and I had... this happened about a year and a half ago. Out in San Bernardino County, there's a place that we go, in the mountains. We gather medicine, or we gather some things that we need for homeo purposes and on the road where we go to do this, the layout of the land is kind of significant so let me explain it to you briefly. It's a wide open road an

My grandpa, a WWII veteran and born in Scotland, came to Canada with my great-grandparents and lived by Elliot Lake from about 2 years of age, until paranormal activity plagued him and his large family, when, at about 11 years of age, they moved to the golden-mile region of Ontario to Alliston. He, his 4 brothers and his father used to pan for gold in the various rivers and streams, near Elliot Lake and, that part of Northern Ontario, known to be rich in other precious metals and gems, especiall

Carl from Vancouver, Canada called in to tell of a weird experience he had:“I'm a limo driver from Vancouver. I wanted to talk to you about a story. It's my personal experience I had. I'm a little nervous. I never really shared it with anybody. Basically I was dreaming. I was fighting myself in a dream and a voice came to me and it said: 'You better wake up now or you're never going to wake up ever again.' and I woke up instantaneously and I saw two black

Cambridge, MA - 2012-05-07: This incident happened at approximately 3AM in the morning. For some reason I can remember everything like it just happened. This was not a dream or a nightmare. I woke up to the sound of a child laughing. As I rolled over to see where the sound was coming from when, I saw the boy running back and forth beside my bed. I felt like something had control of my body. I couldn't move. My first instinct was to yell, but when I tried noth

I recently received the following account:I was camping in the Shenandoah Mountains in Rockingham County, VA last October 2017. It was nice fall weather, so I decided to go out for the weekend. When I arrived, a local ranger pointed out a hiking trail for me to follow. After a hike over the mountain, there was a nice area of flat ground near a stream that was perfect for camping. I hiked a few miles to get to the bottom of the trail. I set up camp, ate dinner and crawled into my tent.